Globe Oct-19-15

GODFATHER star James Caan was rushed to the hospital for a possible heart attack after GLOBE revealed he’s been caught up in a 22-yearold death mystery! The 75-year-old actor complained of chest pain while on a Toronto movie shoot and was rushed to a nearby emergency room. The terrifying crisis is just the latest drama for the once-handsome star. Just last week GLOBE exposed a longsuppressed coroner’s report on the 1993 death of Caan’s pal Mark Schwartz, a 25-year-old actor who plunged from the star’s apartment building. At the time, police investigators said they saw “narcotics and paraphernalia” in Caan’s pad. And when Jimmy was rushed to the Toronto hospital on Sept. 29, “he was clutching his chest — thinking he was dying,” a source says. “He thought he was…

TV legend Barbara Walters has lost her famous gift of gab — and shocked friends are terrified the respected reporter is losing her mind! An insider tells GLOBE that Walters — who turned 86 on Sept. 25 — has grown increasingly forgetful since leaving The View last year, and may be suffering from early stages of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease! “Her quick mind is a thing of the past!” Walters’ recent guest visits hosting The View were a disaster, says the source, who explains, “Producers had to spoon-feed her words, and even the names of guests through an ear piece she’s required to wear. “Without the device, she’d sound like a blathering idiot!” Her decline is heartbreaking, notes the spy, since the news veteran was renowned for her “quick mind,”…

IN a blockbuster new memoir, Burt Reynolds reveals the darkest chapter in his 50-year career when some of his closest friends in Hollywood turned their backs on him amid fears he was dying from AIDS! The Smokey and the Bandit superstar, now 79, is still bitter over the famous pals who betrayed him at his lowest point, according to a GLOBE source who has read the sensational book from cover to cover. Burt admits he didn’t work for two years in the 1980s after losing 40 pounds due to a mysterious illness — and Hollywood began buzzing he’d contracted the killer virus. Even his dentist and make-up artist refused to touch him because of the AIDS scare, the one-time tough guy actor writes in But Enough About Me, due in…

CONNIVING Camilla has clawed her way back into power, gloating gleefully, “I will be Queen one day!” sources tell GLOBE. As soon as Queen Elizabeth reversed her decision to step down in the near future and make William and Kate the next King and Queen, Prince Charles’ scheming second wife set in motion a plot to snatch the Crown. And this time she has a powerful new ally — a politician with close ties to the royal family who is also her secret lover! “Her Majesty’s determination to remain on the job — at least for the immediate future — gave Camilla the opportunity to work on her husband and push him into fighting for his birthright as heir to the Throne,” say a palace insider. With their stormy 10-year…

Cruel betrayal of Gary Powers EXPOSED AFTER 55 YEARS: BRAVE American pilot Gary Powers was branded a coward and traitor when he returned to the U.S. after his U-2 plane was shot down over Russia at the height of the Cold War and he survived two years in a Soviet prison! But shocking declassified documents now reveal the gutsy flier was an All-American hero hung out to dry by CIA brass covering up the truth. “It came as a great shock to me the way I was treated by my own country, and particularly by my employers, the CIA,” Powers said after his return. The new blockbuster Steven Spielberg movie, Bridge of Spies, gives a full pardon to Powers, played by Austin Stowell, 30. The film stars Tom Hanks as…

MOVIE legend Clint Eastwood is madly in love with his much younger blonde girlfriend — and friends predict they’ll elope before year’s end! GLOBE caught the smitten 85-year-old in New York City with 52-year-old hottie Christina Sandera, who is 33 years YOUNGER than the Oscar winner. Clint and Christina, who worked as a hostess at his Carmel, Calif., Mission Ranch Hotel, are inseparable, say close friends. “Clint has absolutely flipped for her,” one insider says. “And she is headover-heels in love with him. “At this stage of their lives, neither one is looking for a big elaborate wedding. I would look for them to run away to some place like Tahiti to marry without any fanfare. I’m sure it’s going to happen sooner rather than later.” Clint, who’s directing a…